Vizi Andrei Quotes

You're not a lawyer. You're someone who helps people deal with legal matters. You're not a doctor. You're a fellow who saves people's lives or gives them the right advice to improve their health.
Add a verb to your identity – it keeps you sane; not a pompous noun – which may only boost your ego; it may distract you from your purpose, from the actions you need to take.
Your job is to do something, not to be something.

The human mind doesn't seek truth and accuracy; it seeks meaning.
Our minds didn't evolve to be scientific tools; they evolved to be survival tools.
In other words, nature didn't design them to be truth-seekers – it designed them to be useful for our emotional, mental, and social fitness.
It's a shame no one dares to develop a criterion for rationality based on meaning, since that's what our intellectual diet is fundamentally based on.

From a cosmic perspective, I'm simply an accident that has nothing to lose. Why take it all so seriously?

Easterners get excited if the train arrives on time. Westerners deem such an event implicit. What for some represents a trivial circumstance, is for others a festival.

Men are not to be judged so much by what they know, but rather by what they know they do not know.

Judge a man not by his knowledge, but by his level of awareness of its limits.

If you want to have a calm discussion about a hot topic, use an arsenal of cold phrases.

Good philosophers start with theory and end up with action.

Great philosophers start with action and end up with
theory.

Rationality is undetected rhetoric.

Criticism will always be closer to the truth than flattery.

Ideas are not situated within the books we read – but within ourselves. That's why we consider many ideas to be evident once we read them. We read a book, and, after doing so, we consider what we read to be 'common sense'.

The expression of ideas, and not the ideas in themselves, is what we seek when reading books. Ideas are latent components of our soul – and the soul can hardly make an agreement with the brain to help language produce a refined and precise expression of those ideas. Those who succeed in making that agreement are the writers – the good writers. And we need to thank them – and we can automatically do so if we read their books.

When people praise someone for 'thinking for herself', you should laugh.

You can't think for yourself. No one can. We cannot think independently of other human beings.

Our thinking process is the product of what we read, watch, experience and whom we socialize and hang out with.

In an abundant world, productivity is about eliminating bad habits; then adding good ones.

In an abundant world, knowledge is about filtering, rather than gathering, information.

In an abundant world, discipline is the new freedom.

In an abundant world―less is more; and more is less.

It is easier to invent than to discover. Humanity does not have the patience to wait for the truth. Humans want utility – quickly! Religion and law were not created because they are true, but because they are utilitarian: they serve our needs.

Or, do they?

Kindness without truth comes across as flattery.

Truth without kindness comes across as disrespect.

Those who manage to find the sweet spot are the most persuasive.

To call yourself a 'realistic' person is intensely arrogant and naïve. If you do so, you claim that you are capable of understanding reality. And, is there a more silly and arrogant person than the one who claims such an impermissible thing?

Once I make a decision, I decide to ignore any type of counter-arguments, no matter how reasonable they are. I have a strong personality; or, in other words, I'm an authentic imbecile.

To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic.

If you're not willing to often take actions that don't make much sense, having a mediocre life will make perfect sense.

If you can't appreciate science and religion at the same time, your life must be scary.

How do you solve a delicate life problem? It depends. On what? On many variables.
The person who offers a straightforward solution to a delicate life problem is imprudent. There's no straightforward solution when it comes to choosing your career, to finding a good enough life partner, to discovering happiness or, let's say, peace of mind.

If fame is a curse, successful people―by definition―can't be seen.

Almost every person I admire has a quiet life at home with someone they love, working on projects they love―designing their life as they love.